Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004

Suzuki, Mihoko [Editor]; Dufault, Roseanna [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0873529472 / ISBN 13: 9780873529471

Published by Modern Language Association, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004
• Publisher: Modern Language Association
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873529472
• ISBN 13: 9780873529471
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good+
• Weight: 17 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Feminism/Gender Studies

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Synopsis

The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, created in 1974, has played a major role in establishing the legitimacy and visibility of feminist inquiry. The early award-winning essays are available in the MLA volume Courage and Tools. This volume presents the seventeen essays that won the award for the years 1990-2004, an era that witnessed a diversification of the objects of feminist study and critical approaches. Essays treat authors ranging from well-known writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Gwendolyn Brooks, Doris Lessing, and Virginia Woolf to less familiar writers such as the Magreb author Assia Djebar, the Spanish poet Concha Méndez, the Native American writer Zitkala-Sa, and the Palestinian novelists Liana Badr and Sahar Khalifeh. Essayists explore their topics through a multiplicity of perspectives, including race and ethnicity studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and film theory, nationhood and nationalism, and discourses of aging. Each award winner has written a short afterword, reflecting on her essay and her critical practice.
The volume includes a foreword by Florence Howe, cofounder of the Feminist Press, and an afterword by Annette Kolodny, an early recipient of the Florence Howe award.

About the Author

Cristina Malcolmson is Professor of English at Bates College. Her previous books include "Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic" and "Longman Critical Readers: Renaissance Poetry,"
Mihoko Suzuki Professor of English at the University of Miami and the author of "Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic" and "Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688,"